Making The Connection

“Twenty-five workmen were deported from Ottawa a few days ago by the Borden Government because there was no work in Canada by which they could earn a living. Does anyone remember deportation for such a reason in the days of Laurier?

In the last four years of the Laurier Government the total expenditure of the Dominion was increased by $11,133,000. In the first two years of Borden rule the expenditure was increased by $24,285,000. “Dash away and spend the money” is the Borden policy – and the people pay.

Talking about the gold supply, the Wall St. Journal says that Cecil Rhodes and Hammond changed the entire economic situation of the world in a conversation over a South African camp fire. Surely the economic control of the world ought to rest with those who produce food and other things that are more useful than gold. –Toronto Star.

Freight rates on the Government railway were increased by the Borden Government. The working hours of employees on the road have now been reduced and men’s earnings lessened while foreign laborers have been imported to do work which was denied native born citizens. Workmen and the public generally both suffer from the methods.

Since hard times have come and unemployment has become so widespread, it may be no unmixed evil that immigration is falling off by many thousands. It is a startling commentary upon the checking of Canadian progress, however, that in the past six months there was a decline of 59 per cent in the emigration from Great Britain to the Dominion. In June, the figures were even more startling for the decline in emigration from the United Kingdom to Canada was no less than seventy per cent. Since depression, financial stringency and unemployment have been substituted for the prosperity and expansion which Canada knew during all the years of Liberal administration, the Dominion has ceased to be the land of promise and attraction to our fellow Britishers in the Mother Country. Nor is it in Britain alone that Canada has ceased to be the land of promise and attraction. Figures recently issued at Washington show that the flow of American settlers to the Dominion has greatly decreased since the Hard Times Government took office. During the eleven months ending with May 31st, 1914, the American emigration to Canada practically stood still and, on the other hand there was an increase of six or seven thousand in the number of persons leaving Canada for the United States as compared with the number entering the republic from the Dominion in the full 12 months of 1912. Comment upon such facts and figures is unnecessary.”

-With the last “Battle of the Frontier” at Mons, the battles switch to the wooded Ardennes region to the north of Metz.

August 23:

-Japan declares war on Germany, but concentrates efforts against the German colony port of Tsingtao in China.

August 26-31:

-Major German victory at Tannenberg. Russian losses are enormous.

August 28:

-Sea War, North Sea – British sink four German vessels, losing none of their own in the battle, signaling a clear-cut success by the British, and causing Germany to shelve plans to use the High Seas Fleet in large-scale offensive operations in the North Sea.

August 30:

-Air War, France – Paris becomes the first capital city to suffer aerial bombardment when a German Taube monoplane drops four small bombs and propaganda leaflets.

September 5:

The First Battle of the Marne begins. Trench warfare begins as soldiers on both sides dig in.

From here on in, skip over to Wikipedia to follow the comprehensive timeline they provide for World War I :

It is interesting to note that in 2014, as we prepare to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1, Carleton Place residents of 1914 were remembering the end of another war fought one hundred years earlier – the 1812-1814 war between Canada (Britain) and the United States:

“Saturday (July 25th), was the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Lundy’s Lane. It was the last important land battle on the frontier between Canada and the United States, and one of the most stubbornly contested, the fight being protracted far into the night. Both sides claimed it, but there can be no doubt that the American attack was repelled, and the troops retired from the field. The War of 1812-14 was not Canadian in its origin, although it was fought largely upon Canadian soil. The dispute arose upon the sea, and Canada was invaded merely because it lay in convenient proximity to the United States. The Americans did much better upon sea than upon land, where the results of the war were decidedly favorable to Canada. Saturday’s celebration is remarkable because it commemorates not only the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, but the hundred years of peace and growing frirendship which have followed the war. There have been disputes and misunderstandings in the century, but they have all been settled without bloodshed. The relation which exists today does not rest upon sentiment alone. It is a practical, statesmanlike arrangement. It is recognized that the highest interests of the two nations are practically identical, and that war between them would be suicidal.”

The Carleton Place Public Library has become a member of the Eastern Ontario Regional Library Co-operative recently set up under a part section of the Public Library Act. About fifty other libraries and associate libraries in Eastern Ontario have become members.

The purpose of this new organization is the improvement and extension of library services through the co-operative use of the area’s library resources.

The co-operative will be governed by a Regional Board which has been formed with the following persons as its first members:

The Public Libraries of Ottawa, Pembroke, Cornwall and Brockville have been designated “Resource Libraries”. As these libraries are repositories of important collections they will play a major role in a rational development of library services within the region. This will be done mainly through an active exchange of information, books and other library services among themselves as well as through the assistance they can provide to smaller libraries.

It is to be noted that the Regional Board will have no authority over the local Boards, which shall keep their autonomy.

The above information is gleaned from the first Bulletin issued by the Regional Board to member libraries.